• Unlike the Romanticism era, the Baroque composers concentrated on recreating the situation in the lyrics rather than evolving a beautiful melody. (donga.com)
  • Earlier this year, De Bique and Concert Köln released an album together called Mirrors, which featured a lot of music by Handel, some arias, some instrumental music, but also music by some of Handel's contemporaries, composers who are a lot less well-known - names like Graun, Broschi, and I'll say this one carefully, Leonardo Vinci. (wqxr.org)
  • We decided to take the heroines of Handel and juxtapose them with his contemporaries, composers of his era, his time with the same text or aria of those same heroines or opera in the Baroque golden age. (wqxr.org)
  • Same words, often same libretti, but different music from different composers. (wqxr.org)
  • In their program notes for their 15th annual Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival and Institute , husband-and-wife artistic directors David Finckel and Wu Han announced this year's theme, which examines "the unfolding of music through the lens of an instrument whose makers, players, and composers shaped the evolution of music itself: the violin. (sfcv.org)
  • The curiosities include a live recording by one of the world's most popular living composers, and some intriguing film music. (theartsdesk.com)
  • Like operas-and soap operas-to come, the Baroque works are love stories where boy meets girl or goddess meets guy, given the stories' origins in Greek mythology and the influence of ancient theater on early opera composers. (shepherdexpress.com)
  • Baroque music grew upon a Renaissance foundation, and Classical composers were influenced by Baroque music, and so on. (theinstrumentalist.com)
  • After having to study those composers throughout the years, you hear things missing from the music you like to play and write so you intertwine it. (tomhess.net)
  • As a player, a lot of my phrasing and long sustaining notes are influenced by Romantic era virtuoso pianists/composers (Chopin, Liszt, for example) My vibrato was influenced heavily by King Diamond's guitarist (Andy LaRocque) and Rhapsody's singer (Fabio Leone). (tomhess.net)
  • and it is clear that he, more than any of his contemporaries, developed the art of Dramma per Musica to such a sophisticated extent that it laid the foundations for the operas of Mozart and the oratorios of Mendelssohn (to name just two of the many later composers who greatly admired Handel's music). (christopher-robson.com)
  • The music has its own implicit, inherent phrasing, and usually, composers write a lot of instructions such as dynamics, articulations, slurs etc to help us bring out their phrasing concepts. (cellofun.eu)
  • The written music that composers have left us is like an actors script that we must bring to life by applying all our interpretative skills and judgement in order to extract from it (or simply uncover) the most possible meaning. (cellofun.eu)
  • These musicians are extraordinary in the music of Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, Mozart and many other composers of the pre-1800 era. (scena.org)
  • The extent of vibrato for solo singers is usually less than a semitone (100 cents) either side of the note, while singers in a choir typically use narrower vibrato with an extent of less than a tenth of a semitone (10 cents) either side. (wikipedia.org)
  • Singing vibrato Violin vibrato The first note is played without vibrato, while the rest is played with. (wikipedia.org)
  • The party atmosphere stemmed directly from the symbiotic energy between conductor Julian Wachner and the musicians of Philharmonia Baroque, specifically in Telemann's Concerto in F Major for violin, oboe and two horns, and Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1. (sfcv.org)
  • Built around a programme of Baroque double concertos, last night's Prom should have brought Nicola Benedetti and Alina Ibragimova together in a violin super-duo that promised marvels. (theartsdesk.com)
  • This year's program, set forth in an unusually erudite and informative, 107-page booklet (concise program notes are available online ), provides a uniquely organized showcase of the diversity of the violin and its players, with seven major concerts proceeding chronologically through four centuries, from "The Path to Bach" through to "The National Flavors" of contemporary music. (sfcv.org)
  • Modern Violin vs. Baroque Violin: What's The Difference? (stringshq.com)
  • If you are wondering about the differences between the modern violin and the baroque violin, you're not alone. (stringshq.com)
  • Within this article, we go into detail on the differences between the modern violin and the baroque violin. (stringshq.com)
  • The baroque violin is shorter and wider than the modern-day violin, resulting in a quieter and softer sound. (stringshq.com)
  • The Baroque violin is generally shorter and wider than a modern violin. (stringshq.com)
  • The neck of the baroque violin differs from that of the standard violin. (stringshq.com)
  • The baroque neck is at an almost straight line, or at a slight incline, from the body of the violin. (stringshq.com)
  • The Fingerboard is often shorter and thinner on a baroque violin. (stringshq.com)
  • How Does a Baroque Violin Sound Compared to a Modern Violin? (stringshq.com)
  • The baroque violin is well suited to playing longer, legato phrases. (stringshq.com)
  • The baroque violin, due to being smaller with a lighter bow, creates a more tinny quality compared to the larger and heavier standard violin. (stringshq.com)
  • a Baroque violin gives gentle tones compared to the forcefulness of new violins. (stringshq.com)
  • Is Playing the Baroque Violin Different From Playing the Modern Violin? (stringshq.com)
  • There are many technicalities that differentiate playing a Baroque violin from playing a modern violin. (stringshq.com)
  • There are no chin or shoulder rests in a Baroque violin, so the violinist needs to stand and move in a different manner. (stringshq.com)
  • 76, ' quite at the epub dirt music of China: British classicist ending US foods to Nehru for Joining the United Nations Security Council, ' period Anton Harder gives the violin recording India's competition in the United Nations Security Council in the shifts. (qtreiber.com)
  • As a violin teacher (perhaps predictably, as a baroque specialist), I often teach my students vibrato much later than many other teachers. (stackexchange.com)
  • This time the players will be conducted by an internationally esteemed figure in Baroque music, harpsichordist Jory Virikour, and will play Baroque guitars, violins, cellos and other period instruments. (shepherdexpress.com)
  • Baroque violins are almost always fitted with gut strings, as opposed to the more common metal and synthetic strings on a modern instrument, and played with a bow made on the baroque model rather than the modern. (roundtaiwanround.com)
  • A large tome could be written about Baroque phrase lengths, so let me just say that phrase lengths were influenced by the structure of Baroque violins, gambas, and bows, the fast sound decay rate of harpsichords, and the absence of pianos. (theinstrumentalist.com)
  • Baroque violins use catgut for strings rather than metal which produces a more mellow sound, perfect for baroque music. (stringshq.com)
  • What Are the Differences Between Modern and Baroque Violins? (stringshq.com)
  • Baroque violins have some substantial differences that set them apart from modern violins. (stringshq.com)
  • Different features affect the sound quality significantly and make baroque violins well suited to the softer sound we often associate with baroque music. (stringshq.com)
  • Baroque violins are rather quiet and sound soft. (stringshq.com)
  • This often means the bridge height is higher on modern-day violins compared to baroque. (stringshq.com)
  • Baroque violins don't use chin-rests or shoulder rests. (stringshq.com)
  • Baroque violins are played resting on the collar rather than the shoulder. (stringshq.com)
  • Vibrato (Italian, from past participle of "vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch. (wikipedia.org)
  • Vibrato is defined as a periodic variation in the pitch (frequency) of a musical note that is perceived as one fundamental frequency. (wikipedia.org)
  • Presently, the leading understanding is that when vibrato is utilised, listeners are able to focus on the average pitch and hear it as a single fundamental as opposed to the alternation between two different fundamental frequencies. (wikipedia.org)
  • In practice, it is difficult for a singer or musical instrument player to achieve only pitch vibrato (where only the pitch or only the volume is varied), and variations in both pitch and volume will often be achieved at the same time. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the world of electric guitar and record production vibrato retains the same meaning as in the classical world (a periodic variation in pitch) but tremolo describes a periodic variation in volume[dubious - discuss] usually achieved using outboard effects units. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the case of many string instruments the sound emitted is strongly directional, particularly at high frequencies, and the slight variations in pitch typical of vibrato playing can cause large changes in the directional patterns of the radiated sound. (wikipedia.org)
  • The extent of the variation in pitch during vibrato is controlled by the performer. (wikipedia.org)
  • The rate and extent of the variation in pitch during vibrato is controlled by the performer. (alchetron.com)
  • They are different animals in terms of how they are strung-at a lower pitch," the Florentine's General Director William Florescu says of the Baroque instrumentation. (shepherdexpress.com)
  • We played on original instruments or copies of them, and we played at Baroque pitch, which was approximately A= 415 (roughly ½ step lower than written). (theinstrumentalist.com)
  • 3. Can you give a little sales pitch to our readers about your music? (tomhess.net)
  • I chuckle to think how Neumann might have responded to Hough's observation that the unsteadier pitch of gut strings "simulate a vibrato" when played in ensembles. (blogspot.com)
  • Hollywood Fantasy Strings is the first iteration of Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra, putting 5 of the most iconic instruments from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras at your fingertips alongside brand-new stylized recordings from modern-day orchestral musicians. (scitscat.com)
  • Church musicians in the baroque period earned lower pay and had less status than court musicians. (roundtaiwanround.com)
  • It was a revelation to shed the Romantic scales from our eyes and begin to understand that the music of Bach, Telemann, and Handel had first been performed by musicians who lived 150 to 200 years before Mahler, Tchai-kovsky, or Rachmaninoff. (theinstrumentalist.com)
  • The playing was very stylized, and sometimes, a bit antiseptic, but those leading the charge laid down the Baroque performance foundation for the musicians who would follow. (theinstrumentalist.com)
  • The musicians have ranged far and wide for the repertoire for this collection of music on the general subject of lovesickness. (earlymusicreview.com)
  • The fresh, vibrato-less sound produced by these virtuosic musicians was quite exhilarating. (leedsphil.com)
  • Many singers, musicians and music lovers also forget that Handel's Oratorios are rooted in his theatrical & operatic expression and tradition, (unlike the Germanic oratorio tradition of Bach or Telemann). (christopher-robson.com)
  • String vibrato vs. its minimization - not its absence: Fiddlers rarely play with absolutely no vibrato - has been one of the hottest points of contention between adherents to historically informed performance (HIP) practices and non-HIP ("modern") musicians. (blogspot.com)
  • The New World musicians adapted their style to the period, playing without vibrato. (southfloridaclassicalreview.com)
  • Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for musicians, students, and enthusiasts. (stackexchange.com)
  • With Baroque music, and especially with the music of Bach, the opening phrase must be kept as square and straightforward as possible. (mangore.com)
  • As a professor at the philharmonic institution Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, Türk acted as main tenor for Bach s ecclesiastical music conducted by Jordi Savall and Masaaki Suzuki, and the operas of Monteverdi. (donga.com)
  • He held a seminar at the Concert Hall at Seoul National University on July 13 with the theme of Baroque vocal music and will open a master s class until July 15 at the same location, following up with appearances in concerts titled Church Music of Bach and Baroque Secular Vocal Music at 7:30 p.m. on July 17 and 18, respectively, at the Kumho Art Hall. (donga.com)
  • Do you think Casals found more meaning in the music than Bach intended? (cello.org)
  • Previously as a college student in the 1960s, I had religiously copied articulations for the Bach sonatas from my teacher's copies of the music. (theinstrumentalist.com)
  • Unlike the works of Vivaldi and Bach that would follow, which felt firmly rooted in the Baroque period, Telemann's short three-movement symphony seemed to look forward to the Classical era. (southfloridaclassicalreview.com)
  • This performance gives you the flavour of Gardiner's approach to Bach: light textures, detailed scholarly preparation but overall highly committed music-making. (scena.org)
  • Mon autre vidéoclip de cette semaine met en vedette l'OSL et John Eliot Gardiner qui discute de son pèlerinage historique des cantates de Bach. (scena.org)
  • Toutes les cantates de Bach ont été enregistrées en 2000, le 250 e anniversaire de la mort de Bach. (scena.org)
  • Dans ce vidéoclip, Magdalena Kozena chante l'aria Tief gebückt und voller Reue de la Cantate no 199 de Bach accompagné de l'orchestre English Baroque Soloists sous la direction de John Eliot Gardiner. (scena.org)
  • The mission at H+H was always the old and the new, and actually in a strange way, by turning the orchestra into a period orchestra, (Hogwood) actually didn't alter that mission," said current H+H music director Harry Christophers. (violinist.com)
  • They're a fine baroque orchestra that's been performing the music of this time period for three decades. (wqxr.org)
  • Kosti Vehanen, Franz Rupp, epub dirt music JSP skills orchestra who has Marian Anderson or is a piano of the Civil Rights shariaa so in the United States either has substantially or gets made a policy of this breadth. (qtreiber.com)
  • (Nicholas McGegan is music director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Pasadena Symphony and artist-in-association with Australia's Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. (upr.org)
  • The brass and percussion sections took the night off, as the New World Symphony shrank to the size of an 18th-century orchestra for an evening of Baroque music Saturday. (southfloridaclassicalreview.com)
  • We were given a taste of what his typical day was like, musically at least, at the latest concert by Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra , dubbed "24 Hours at Versailles," last Friday at the Beverly O'Neill Theater . (laopus.com)
  • However, no evidence exists of authors using the term vibrato before the 19th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • In October of 1994, I heard Fryderyk Chopin and that changed everything for me, I was totally into 19th century Romantic era music (and still am). (tomhess.net)
  • Handel's music, particularly his music for voices, is actually a wonderful step forward in the pure Belcanto tradition that started with Caccini, Monteverdi and Cavalli, culminating in the great romantic Belcanto tradition of the 19th & early 20th centuries. (christopher-robson.com)
  • They are employed routinely in baroque and classical music, and have been used selectively in much of the 19th-century romantic repertory. (blogspot.com)
  • Playing a modern instrument, the young Chinese-Australian violinist is nonetheless responsive to Baroque idiom - bar one or two anachronistic gestures. (classical-music.com)
  • Soovin Kim , who studied at the Curtis Institute and won the Paganini Competition in Genoa at age 20, is first violinist of the Johannes String Quartet and the founder and artistic director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont. (sfcv.org)
  • Aaron Boyd , a graduate of Juilliard, has performed many new music commissions and is founder of the Zukofsky Quartet and a violinist with the Escher String Quartet. (sfcv.org)
  • I spent many fruitful hours discussing the issue with the late Frederick Neumann, the musicologist and violinist who in the years after his retirement from the University of Richmond faculty was one of the most articulate foes of low-vibrato playing. (blogspot.com)
  • In the quest for affectus , historically informed specialists sometimes apply more vibrato than a modern violinist would think seemly. (blogspot.com)
  • Rather than using vibrato, except for a hint here and there, violinist Christen Greer and flautist Johanna Gruskin used phrasing and gradations in volume to bring out the music's solemn power. (southfloridaclassicalreview.com)
  • They employ baroque bowing techniques and use vibrato very sparingly. (ilconvito.com)
  • Note how vibrato is used sparingly but for very telling expressive effect both in the voice and in the strings. (scena.org)
  • But as the 20th century progressed, so did musical tastes and practices -- particularly in regard to Baroque music. (violinist.com)
  • The use of vibrato continuously dates from the early 20th century, from around the time of , and is completely inappropriate for Baroque music. (roundtaiwanround.com)
  • Lyrichord Early Music Series' release of Dido and Aeneas is a powerful reminder of the greatness of Purcell's only opera. (worldmusicstore.com)
  • The Baroque trumpet, the sweet tone of Purcell's trumpets, it's like an extension of the oboe -- it's not the same as hearing a modern trumpet. (violinist.com)
  • I had feared that the bittersweet delicacy of the Baroque oboe might disappear into the vacant cavern of the Hall. (theartsdesk.com)
  • Milhaud's La Chemin e du roi Ren , pungent and baroque-inspired, is the quirky heart, and throughout the disc, we find a bit more vibrato from the flute, a brighter oboe tone, and a less dominant horn sound, all fitting for French works. (concertonet.com)
  • Ruiz is known as a distinguished practitioner of the Baroque oboe, but here he played guitar and drum, and was, to put it mildly, an enthusiastic conductor. (laopus.com)
  • There is less vibrato on the strings. (shepherdexpress.com)
  • The International Baroque Players led by Jorge Jimenez comprised just eighteen strings, two oboes, bassoon, small timpani and two trumpets. (leedsphil.com)
  • A more authentic baroque style was achieved by using short instrument bows, gut strings and natural (baroque) trumpets instead of valved instruments. (leedsphil.com)
  • Strings, gut and steel, are played with vibrato, but with differing quantities and qualities, depending on the composer, the music's period and its pace and expressive demands. (blogspot.com)
  • The harpsichord's plucked strings offered a rich, clear sound that enriched the complex melodies of Baroque music. (soundiron.com)
  • The terms vibrato and tremolo are sometimes used interchangeably, although (in the classical world) they are properly defined as separate effects. (wikipedia.org)
  • Electronic manipulation or generation of signals makes it easier to achieve or demonstrate pure tremolo or vibrato. (wikipedia.org)
  • A Leslie speaker (best known through its historical and popular association with the Hammond organ) creates vibrato as a byproduct of tremolo production. (alchetron.com)
  • A segment called "Representative Literature" contains exemplary flute music and photographs of flutes from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary periods giving students a broad historical perspective of both flute literature and the development and use of various types of flutes. (melbay.com)
  • We held to the view that if you were going to play Baroque music you should do it on a traverso or Baroque flute. (theinstrumentalist.com)
  • Scotting has a flexible and rich countertenor voice, deft in ornamentation with a not unpleasant regular vibrato, which he applies intelligently and expressively to his chosen repertoire. (earlymusicreview.com)
  • Her accounts of the Vivaldi, Tartini and Pisendel sonatas are all turned with style, imagination and sensitivity and she introduces vibrato and extempore ornamentation freely. (thestrad.com)
  • The Ama Deus Ensemble, founded by Radu in 1991 on the occasion of the Mozart Bicentennial, combines with the Vox Renaissance Consort to make up Vox Ama Deus, a Philadelphia-based musical organization which since 1987 has specialized in authentic performances of vocal and instrumental music of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. (worldmusicstore.com)
  • Their ears were trained on Renaissance music, not even that of Mozart, Haydn, or Beethoven. (theinstrumentalist.com)
  • Hayter specializes in early music from the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque eras, which forms the basis for most of her songs. (villagevoice.com)
  • This versatile instrument was a star in both Renaissance and Baroque compositions, shining both as an accompanist and a soloist. (soundiron.com)
  • Without the input & exploration of a modern performer's personal expressive skills, sensibilities and experience, music in whatever form and from whatever period has little or no chance of coming to life. (christopher-robson.com)
  • Advanced techniques and concepts such as harmonics, vibrato, trills, interpretation, and phrasing are outlined succinctly through descriptive text and musical examples. (melbay.com)
  • Any attempt to accurately describe and give praise to the splendor of his tone, the depth of his expression, the clarity of his diction, his subtle vibrato, and his delicate use of trills and other little adornments is doomed to fall short. (sfcv.org)
  • Baroque ensembles struggled to gain audiences, and those who went to hear them came away commenting about the funky intonation or anemic sounds. (theinstrumentalist.com)
  • Baroque ensembles on early instruments thrive today and have grown into mature, well-respected groups. (theinstrumentalist.com)
  • But unlike the murky sounds produced by some early music ensembles, their playing was technically admirable, with excellent intonation, clarity and precision. (southfloridaclassicalreview.com)
  • Conducting from the harpsichord was Jeannette Sorrell, a renowned early music specialist who founded Apollo's Fire, a Cleveland-based period-instrument ensemble. (southfloridaclassicalreview.com)
  • The Harpsichord, a keyboard sensation from the 16th to mid 18th century, once ruled European music. (soundiron.com)
  • Nearly every Baroque composer wrote for the harpsichord, whether as a soloist or in continuo. (soundiron.com)
  • Anyway, this is a small reservation about a magisterial account of some very unfamiliar Portuguese organ music, and we look forward very much to seeing in later volumes how this distinctly individual composer deploys the harp in his compositions. (earlymusicreview.com)
  • You are about to enjoy a program of Baroque vocal music, sung by a rising star of the opera world, who is joined by one of the premier early music orchestras in the world. (wqxr.org)
  • Stylistically, there are many things to explore in Handel's vocal music. (christopher-robson.com)
  • He was making the old music sound new, using period instruments. (violinist.com)
  • With his theatrical - in a good way - conducting style, Wachner elicited a festive, generous, and free-flowing sound from Philharmonia Baroque that resonated remarkably well in the responsive acoustic environment of San Francisco's Calvary Presbyterian Church. (sfcv.org)
  • While music may express that which cannot be said, Victor Hugo would be the first to agree that words help describe what makes a high-quality musical sound. (theinstrumentalist.com)
  • Neumann, though, planted a question about vibrato: How little is too much, making string sound too thin and weak, and denaturing musical tone and expression? (blogspot.com)
  • A beautiful sound is the basic raw material of music. (cellofun.eu)
  • In a charming way it manages to sound both a little old-fashioned and very modern at the same time: She uses subtle portamenti that are rarely heard today but the orchestral winds play without vibrato, something now associated with the period instrument movement. (upr.org)
  • Just make sure your vibrato doesn't sound forced or unnatural (get an expert opinion). (stackexchange.com)
  • The heavy-handed Romantic approach, with its enormous choruses, lost favor as scholarship about Baroque performance practice grew. (violinist.com)
  • In 1967, the H + H appointed a new music director, Thomas Dunn, who began a process of paring down the chorus to about 30 and focusing on historical performance practice, though still using modern instruments. (violinist.com)
  • Baroque performance practice, or early music as it is sometimes called, is a good case in point. (theinstrumentalist.com)
  • The violinists and violists play without shoulder rests and often without chinrests, as was the Baroque custom, and it's quite a different technique. (violinist.com)
  • Compositionally, my writing is more influenced by the Baroque (circa 1600-1750) and Romantic (circa 1820s-1900) eras. (tomhess.net)
  • In 1986, Christopher Hogwood , a pioneer (some might say The Pioneer) in the period-performance movement who had founded the Cambridge (UK)-based Academy of Ancient Music in 1973, became music director of H+H and completed the group's transformation into a period-performance ensemble, playing on Baroque instruments. (violinist.com)
  • Using period instruments opens performers to a different kind of music-making. (violinist.com)
  • And audiences might be surprised to learn just how forward-looking the music of the Baroque period could be. (violinist.com)
  • To a question on the vibrato (tremble) being faint in the Baroque period, Türk explained, It is not necessarily about excluding vibrato, it is just that its use is limited to express the fluctuation of emotion. (donga.com)
  • However, last night's soloists sounded, to my ears anyway, more measured and modest than many of the period-instrument barnstormers who have mainstreamed this music over the past few decades. (theartsdesk.com)
  • The trio specializes in music of the baroque period but does not make a fetish of it. (ilconvito.com)
  • In fine art, the term Baroque derived from the Portuguese 'barocco' meaning, 'irregular pearl or stone' describes a fairly complex idiom, originating in Rome, which flowered during the period c. (roundtaiwanround.com)
  • As one might expect from an organ player admired for his florid style, Filago's sacred concerti for solo voices are ornate to a degree more normally associated with the secular music of this period. (earlymusicreview.com)
  • The challenge for Baroque music today is in the studio, where teachers have not universally embraced the concept that it is their responsibility to educate themselves in historic performance practices (Baroque and Classical) so they can relay that information to their students. (theinstrumentalist.com)
  • If he were around today, Neumann would probably say he lost his battles against reduced vibrato and other HIP practices, such as double-dotted rhythms and the note-swelling technique called messa di voce . (blogspot.com)
  • Carl Seashore (1967) conducted the first comprehensive studies on perceptions of vibrato in the context of classically trained singers, finding some individuals are 50-100 times more perceptive of the presence of vibrato than individuals with the least ability and that "much of the most beautiful vibrato is below the threshold for vibrato hearing and is perceived merely as tone quality. (wikipedia.org)
  • Descriptions of what would now be characterised as vibrato go back to the 16th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although Tamsin Little isn't a Baroque specialist there is some influence from historically informed performance: rubato is used discreetly, and vibrato, although more present than might be expected. (prestomusic.com)
  • The Ama Deus Baroque Ensemble is here a string quintet plus continuo, so the whole performance is in scale, and they accompany very stylishly. (worldmusicstore.com)
  • The early music group Ama Deus Ensemble conducted by Valentin Radu turns in a performance of wrenching simplicity and musical and dramatic directness. (worldmusicstore.com)
  • Winning a coveted position at a music school or professional ensemble has many of the qualities of good movie. (theinstrumentalist.com)
  • William Thomas McKinley's "A Different Drummer" was commissioned by Robert Black and the New York New Music Ensemble as a virtuoso vehicle for percussionist Daniel Druckman. (blogspot.com)
  • balance between choir and instrumental ensemble was consummately managed by David Hill, "the Phil's" music director. (leedsphil.com)
  • The ensemble ecco la musica put together a programme of music that was written around the years the plague took place (Christophorus, 2021). (musicaomnia.org)
  • Rather than performing music that is well-known, such as pieces by Claudio Monteverdi, the ensemble focuses on lesser-known repertoire. (musicaomnia.org)
  • Yet for many singers - and sadly many singing teachers, too - Handel's music is still often considered to be something that takes second or third place to the more accepted conventional concert & operatic repertoire of Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, even Schubert & Schumann, etc. (christopher-robson.com)
  • Singers are often needlessly frightened at the prospect of improvised decorations & cadenzas, unsure how much they should decorate a line, whether to use less or no vibrato, or ambivalent about where and when to insert appoggiaturas, etc. (christopher-robson.com)
  • Some singers have a wide, seemingly uncontrollable vibrato. (stackexchange.com)
  • Baroque bows had a convex shape that was quite similar to the actual hunting bows, bending outwards in the middle. (stringshq.com)
  • Bows had many iterations during the baroque era depending on the style of music being played. (stringshq.com)
  • Most alterations were made to the length where shorter bows suited dance music whereas longer bows suited legato-style phrasing. (stringshq.com)
  • Modern bows curve inwards in the middle, the opposite way to baroque. (stringshq.com)
  • Vibrato is sometimes thought of as an effect added onto the note itself, but in some cases it is so fully a part of the style of the music that it can be very difficult for some performers to play without it. (wikipedia.org)
  • The group has evolved with the times: For that first performance, at King's Chapel in Boston, H+H had just been formed by a plucky group of mostly middle-class amateurs, eager to "extend the knowledge and improve the style of performance of church music" in the new country. (violinist.com)
  • and other colouristic techniques - like playing sul ponticello to create a spectral, icy timbre in 'Winter' - are fully in keeping with the Baroque style. (classical-music.com)
  • Tuesday was my first evening at Music@Menlo, and I got to hear Arnaud and Soovin perform in the "Classical Style" concert. (sfcv.org)
  • Strongly influenced by the views of the Jesuits the Baroque is sometimes referred to as 'the Jesuit Style' , architecture, painting and sculpture were to work together to create a unified effect. (roundtaiwanround.com)
  • This traditional style of viola was mainly to be played by local German folk music groups. (roundtaiwanround.com)
  • The members of the Florentine Camerata wanted to create a new vocal style modeled on the music of ancient Greek tragedy. (roundtaiwanround.com)
  • There are at least three different strands of Baroque, as follows: 1 Religious Grandeur A triumphant, extravagant, almost theatrical and at times melodramatic style of , commissioned by the Catholic Counter Reformation and the courts of the absolute monarchies of Europe. (roundtaiwanround.com)
  • Vocal style established in the Baroque, with a solo singer and instrumental accompaniment. (directcurrentmusic.com)
  • There's yet more ballet in a new disc from Russian forces, and late-Romantic orchestral music is represented by two live performances from London orchestras. (theartsdesk.com)
  • 5. Your music is obviously influenced by Baroque, Classical and Romantic music, along with metal and rock. (tomhess.net)
  • I did not get into Baroque, Classical and Romantic music until I went to college for my music degree. (tomhess.net)
  • Borrowed time", common in Romantic music, in which the performer hesitates here or hurries forward there, imparting flexibility to the written note values. (directcurrentmusic.com)
  • As a classical musician, I love reminding myself that at some point, this music was literally drying on the page. (violinist.com)
  • Before moving to San Francisco, he was the Arts Editor, and Senior Classical Music & Opera critic for Brabants Dagblad , a Dutch daily newspaper. (sfcv.org)
  • Anner Bylsma is perhaps most famous for his interpretations of the music of Baroque and Early Classical periods. (cello.org)
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  • Modern classical and avant garde concert music of the 20th and 21st centuries forms the primary focus of this blog. (blogspot.com)
  • This is music with a classical-modern-and-beyond feel, quite nicely done. (blogspot.com)
  • At that time we were doing more neo-classical stuff, the music became more progressive in 1996, while still doing some neo-classical music as well. (tomhess.net)
  • Honestly I don't really like much music from the Classical era (circa 1750-1820s). (tomhess.net)
  • Vibrato - hardly lush, but perceptible and sometimes quite pronounced - has returned to baroque and classical string performance, especially in slow movements and passages meant to impart emotional affect. (blogspot.com)
  • Central Virginia has four principal classical-music presenters: the Richmond Symphony, the Virginia Opera, the Modlin Arts Center at the University of Richmond, and the Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Music, which stages the Rennolds Chamber Concerts. (blogspot.com)
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  • This is followed by something more well-known, an aria from Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette , again beautifully sung and without a hint of the bottom-heaviness that some voices bring to this music. (musicweb-international.com)
  • I've sung without vibrato for years, if I choose to use vibrato now, is it forced? (stackexchange.com)
  • German Baroque tenor Gerd Türk (50, picture) came to Seoul on July 12 for an invitation to the 20th anniversary of the Baroque and Contemporary Music Recital (President Kim Mi-sun, a professor at Dong-Ah Broadcasting College). (donga.com)
  • Arnaud Sussmann trained at the Conservatoire de Paris in his native France and has appeared widely in recital and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. (sfcv.org)
  • These "terminological uncertainties" continue to pervade modern definitions of vibrato. (wikipedia.org)
  • The (Baroque) bow is so completely different from a modern bow, and different things are possible," Christophers said. (violinist.com)
  • Although Florentine Opera has toyed in the past with mounting centuries-old works in modern dress, for the Purcell-Blow production, scenery-lighting designer Noele Stollmack "designed a working backstage from a Baroque theater," Florescu explains. (shepherdexpress.com)
  • She mixed Baroque dance with her own modern twist to create a beautiful hybrid-a nod to tradition with a modern sensibility," Florescu says. (shepherdexpress.com)
  • Baroque has been misjudged until recently as being unviable dramatically and musically for holding modern interest," Florescu concludes. (shepherdexpress.com)
  • Modern historians use the term baroque to indicate. (roundtaiwanround.com)
  • It is hoped that through the discussions a picture will emerge of modern music, its heritage, and what it means for us. (blogspot.com)
  • To the modern musical ear and indeed to the modern music-listening audience, Handel is certainly no longer a stranger. (christopher-robson.com)
  • the Oratorios and, in more recent years, the Operas by George Frederick Handel have become not only more popular, but are now even part of a staple diet in the concert halls and stages of the modern music lover's world. (christopher-robson.com)
  • It's also devoid of the ornaments of our modern-day music, even though it's capable of producing them. (stringshq.com)
  • But when Hayter was eight a teacher took note of her natural vibrato, the recognition leading Hayter to become a soloist and church cantor. (villagevoice.com)
  • the exquisite tour of baroque styles and manners that Il Convito, a trio of young Frenchwomen, brought to the French Embassy's La Maison Française on Thursday. (ilconvito.com)
  • She possesses a large, beautiful, gleaming voice without much vibrato, phrases with exquisite taste, and sings with charming expressiveness. (laopus.com)
  • Summer" takes us to the Americas, with Barber's masterful Summer Music , played with rhythmic lilt and virtuosity in perfect balance, surrounded by the rhythmic energy of the Carter and Schuller works. (concertonet.com)
  • And I, at that time, had never heard Handel's music in that way. (wqxr.org)
  • Ever since the premiere of Handel's Messiah at the Great Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin on 13th April 1742, performances of this beloved work have veered between modesty of scale and overblown grandeur. (leedsphil.com)
  • However, none reached the level of complexity, variety, perfection, etc. of Bach's collection of three Sonatas (church sonatas in the strict sense) and three Partitas (baroque dance suites). (rolf-musicblog.net)
  • The epub dirt music had made, and the harmonies of this excellent symphony get into all the sonatas. (qtreiber.com)
  • Bartok music century thing and music cookies Indian Sonata 3 undergo beautifully because Bartok performed Yehudi Menuhin are that motivational sort religion before he wrote his Soviet torture pdf for Menuhin. (qtreiber.com)
  • The jazz tenor sax player Coleman Hawkins found he had this difficulty when requested to play a passage both with and without vibrato by Leonard Bernstein when producing his record album "What is Jazz" to demonstrate the difference between the two. (wikipedia.org)
  • Despite his technique, he was unable to play without vibrato. (wikipedia.org)
  • One day in between lessons at the Curtis Institute of Music, where I studied with him, we tried a bunch of violas, including several of his own, because a few of his students happened to be looking for new instruments to play. (theviolinchannel.com)
  • While costumes, furnishings, instruments and arrangements are as authentically Baroque as possible, Dani Kuepper of Danceworks injects a different flair into the dance scenes she choreographed. (shepherdexpress.com)
  • Our newsletter is full of new instruments and new music, reviews, help, and what's new at the Carolyn Nussbaum Music Company. (flute4u.com)
  • A capable accompanying selection of instruments tended to fade into the background, and really none of the music here sounds comfortable. (earlymusicreview.com)
  • The beauty of being my age, (my father said I was "no spring chicken"), is that I can look back on developments in the music world over the past 50 years and draw some interesting lessons from the experience. (theinstrumentalist.com)
  • Not all musics of the world rely on harmony for interest, but it is central to most Western music. (directcurrentmusic.com)
  • People talk about vibrato being a thing that happens naturally but I have always gone out of my way to sing notes straight. (stackexchange.com)
  • Vibrato doesn't come naturally to me unless I choose to use it. (stackexchange.com)
  • In the beginning of the Early Music movement I, and many of my colleagues, would have been labeled purists. (theinstrumentalist.com)
  • Nowadays it is surprising to hear a recording with these shortcomings, coming from the context of an Italian early music scene which is generally producing performers of a very high calibre. (earlymusicreview.com)
  • The vibrato of a string instrument and wind instrument is an imitation of that vocal function. (wikipedia.org)
  • Vibrato can also be reproduced mechanically (Leslie speaker) or electronically as an audio effect close to chorus. (wikipedia.org)